Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Marcia Williams

For some reason, I find the bits of low brow humor much more acceptable given the fact that they are true to the period/stories and thus my girls are being exposed to a classic piece at their level. That being said, I thought this was done appropriately and the girls think it is HYSTERICAL. Some of the thematic elements just can't be avoided! And humor during the middle ages included potty humor (read: tooting and whatnot). During her varied career she has worked as an interior designer and has assisted cartoon artist and designer Gerald Scarfe in making papier-mâché and cloth sculptures.Ĭanterbury Tales are a bit bawdy.This is a version adapted for children. Marcia Williams traveled extensively as a child and was educated in Sussex, England, and Switzerland. 'If I could make these stories more accessible, I realized, kids wouldn't have to wait until they were grown-up to appreciate them.' 'My mother read me classics, but until I got older I never found them interesting,' she says. Another classic she has made much more accessible to children-and more appreciated by them-is THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE! and TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE Marcia Williams introduces young readers to the world of William Shakespeare's plays. I hope that readers will also enter the wonderful world of Charles Dickens through this book.' Through her, all his characters lived, and I was transported to their Victorian world. except when she read the stories of Charles Dickens aloud. Of her inspiration for this book, she tells of a teacher she once had 'who was extremely fierce and angry. Yet, at the same time, they have all the comfort of the familiar.' The artist also found pleasure in creating CHARLES DICKENS AND FRIENDS, which presents five retellings of classic Dickens tales. 'The tales are so rich, it is always possible to find something new within them.

'Working on the Old Testament was a joy,' Marcia Williams says.

Her unique style has produced such vivid works and action-packed books as GOD AND HIS CREATIONS: TALES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT. This former nursery school teacher blends her storytelling skills and humorous illustrations with well-known figures and stories from literature. Also, my parents didn't let me read comic books, so I decided to create my own.' I tried to tell my family about what I was doing in a way that was more fun. Marcia Williams began to develop her distinctive comic-book style at an early age: 'When I was about ten and wrote home to my family from boarding school,' she says, 'I never wrote normal letters.

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Marcia Williams